For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.
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For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.
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For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
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For Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to pardon, and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon Thee.
Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend unto the voice of my supplications.
In the day of my trouble I call upon Thee; for Thou wilt answer me.
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- Psalms 145:8-9 (v5) Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness. Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
- Joel 2:13 (v5) Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in…
- Exodus 34:6 (v5) Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness…
- Jonah 2:2 (v7) He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
- Nehemiah 9:17 (v5) and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion…
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- Psalms 34:4-6 (v7) I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be…
- Psalms 103:8 (v5) Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
- Psalms 17:6 (v7) I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
- Psalms 50:15 (v7) Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- Hebrews 5:7 (v7) He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from…
- Isaiah 26:16 (v7) Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
- Lamentations 3:55-57 (v7) I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon. You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.” You came…
- Acts 2:21 (v5) It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
- Psalms 18:6 (v7) In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
- Psalms 25:8 (v5) Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
- Psalms 142:1 (v7) I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.
- Psalms 145:18 (v5) Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
- 1 John 4:8-9 (v5) He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into…
- Psalms 5:1-2 (v6) Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation. Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for I pray to you.
- Psalms 86:15 (v5) But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
- Psalms 91:15 (v7) He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
- Ezekiel 36:37 (v5) “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with…
- Ephesians 1:6-8 (v5) to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved, in whom we have our redemption through his blood,…
- Psalms 17:1 (v6) Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
- Psalms 77:1-2 (v7) My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was…
- Psalms 130:2 (v6) Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
- Psalms 130:7 (v5) Israel, hope in Yahweh, for there is loving kindness with Yahweh. Abundant redemption is with him.
- Psalms 142:3 (v7) When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
- Micah 7:18 (v5) Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger…
- Romans 10:12-13 (v5) For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. For, “Whoever will…
- Psalms 55:1 (v6) Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.
- Psalms 55:16-18 (v7) As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me. Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice. He…
- Psalms 119:68 (v5) You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes.
- Jeremiah 33:3 (v5) ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
- Ezekiel 36:33 (v5) “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste…
- Daniel 9:9 (v5) To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.
- Luke 11:9-10 (v5) “I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. For…
- Luke 22:44 (v7) Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
- John 4:10 (v5) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would…
- Romans 5:20-21 (v5) The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly; that as sin reigned in death, even…
- Psalms 36:7 (v5) How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
- Psalms 69:16 (v5) Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
- Psalms 130:4 (v5) But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
- Isaiah 55:7 (v5) Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God,…
- Jonah 4:2 (v5) He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to…
- Psalms 52:1 (v5) Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
- Ephesians 2:4 (v5) But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On vv5–6 5 For thou, O Lord! art good and propitious.…
5 For thou, O Lord! art good and propitious. We have here a confirmation of the whole preceding doctrine, derived from the nature of God. It would avail the afflicted nothing to have recourse to him, and to lift up their desires and prayers to heaven, were they not persuaded that he is a faithful rewarder of all who call upon him. The point upon which David now insists is, that God is bountiful and inclined to compassion, and that his mercy is so great, as to render it impossible for him to reject any who implore his aid. He calls God propitious, or ascribes to him the attribute of pardoning sin, which is a modification of his goodness. It were not enough for God to be good in general, did he not also extend to sinners his forgiving mercy, which is the meaning of the word סלה, salach. Farther, although David magnifies the plenteousness of God’s mercy, yet he immediately after represents this plenteousness as restricted to the faithful who call upon him, to teach us that those who, making no account of God, obstinately chafe upon the bit, deservedly perish in their calamities. At the same time, he uses the term all, that every man, without exception, from the greatest to the least, may be encouraged confidently to betake himself to the goodness and mercy of God.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv5–6 He doth confess that God is good to all,…
He doth confess that God is good to all, but only merciful to poor sinners.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv5–7 Psa 86:5 For thou, Lord, [art] good, and ready…
Psa 86:5 For thou, Lord, [art] good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
Ver. 5. For thou, Lord, art good, &c.] Lord, I am hell, but thou art heaven, said that martyr; faith wrappeth herself up in the promise, and goeth boldly to God by prayer.
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And plenteous in mercy] Both to forgive sin and to give good, Hos 14:2.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv5–7 Herewith he relieveth himself under the sense of his…
Herewith he relieveth himself under the sense of his guilt, whereby he had brought his present calamities upon himself.
Them that call upon thee, to wit, in truth, as it is explained Psa 145:18, or with an upright heart; for if a man regard iniquity in his heart, God will not hear him, Psa 66:18.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv5–7 For thou, Lord, art good,.... Essentially and independently good,…
For thou, Lord, art good,.... Essentially and independently good, from whom every good and perfect gift comes; good in himself, and good to others; good to all, in a providential way; and good to his own special people in a way of grace: this is asserted by Christ, Mat 19:17.
and ready to forgive; there is forgiveness with him, and it is to be had without difficulty; he has largely provided for it; he is forward unto it, he freely giving it; it is according to the riches of his grace; he does abundantly pardon; no sooner is it asked but it is had; this David knew by experience, Psa 32:5,
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and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee; in truth, in sincerity, in a right way, through Christ, and faith in him; to such not only the Lord shows himself merciful, but is rich and abundant in mercy; he has a multitude of tender mercies, and abounds in his grace and goodness, and in the donation of it to his people; all which encourage their faith and hope in their petitions to him.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv5–7 Verse 5. For thou, Lord, art good] I found…
Verse 5. For thou, Lord, art good] I found my expectations of help on thy own goodness through which thou art always ready to forgive. And I found it also on thy well-known character, to which all thy followers bear testimony, viz., that "thou art plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee."
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v6 Psa 86:6-7. Give ear, O Lord, &c. — He…
Psa 86:6-7. Give ear, O Lord, &c. — He repeats and multiplies his requests, both to ease his own troubled mind, and prevail with God, who is well pleased with his people’s importunity in prayer, Luk 18:1, &c. For thou wilt answer me — Whereof I have assurance, both from the benignity of thy nature, and from the truth and certainty of thy promises, and from my own experience, and that of others in former times.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv5–7 For thou, Lord, art good ... - This is…
For thou, Lord, art good ... - This is another reason why God should hear his prayer; and it is a reason which may be properly urged at all times, and by all classes of persons. It is founded on the benevolence of God; on the fullness of his mercy to all that invoke his name. We should call in vain on a God who was not merciful and ready to forgive; but in the divine character there is the most ample foundation for such an appeal. In his benevolence; in his readiness to forgive; in the plenitude of his mercy, God is all that a penitent sinner could wish him to be. For if such a sinner should endeavor to describe what he would desire to find in God as a ground of appeal in his prayers, he could not express his feelings in language more full and free than God has himself employed about his own readiness to pardon and save. The language of the Bible on this subject would express, better than any language which he could himself employ, what in those circumstances he would wish to find God to be.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v5 5. Good, and ready to forgive—God’s goodness is an…
5. Good, and ready to forgive—God’s goodness is an attribute of his nature; his forgiveness is a modification, or special exercise, of his goodness. The first is generic, the second specific.
Plenteous in mercy— His “mercy” is an emanation of his goodness, directed to man as a sinful and suffering being, through the abundant or manifold operation of which, forgiveness is bestowed.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv5–7 5. ready to forgive] The exact word is found…
5. ready to forgive] The exact word is found only here, but for the thought see Psa_130:4; and for the whole verse cp. Exo_34:6 f.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv5–6 (5) For thou.—Up to this time the psalmist has…
(5) For thou.—Up to this time the psalmist has only put forward his needs in various aspects as a plea for God’s compassion. Now, not without art, he clenches his petition by an appeal to the nature itself of the Divine Being. The originals of the expressions in this verse will be found in Exo_20:6; Exo_34:6-9; Num_14:18-19.
Ready to forgive.—The Hebrew word occurs nowhere else in the form found here. Etymologically it means remitting. The LXX. have ἐπιεικὴς, a word for which perhaps our considerate is the nearest equivalent, implying that legal right is overlooked and suspended in consideration of human weakness. Wis_12:18 gives a good description of this Divine attribute.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv5–7 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive.…
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive. The word translated "ready to forgive," jls, occurs here only; but the context sufficiently fixes its meaning, which is well expressed by the epieikhv of the LXX As God was "good" and "forgiving," he would be likely to grant the petitions just addressed to him. And plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. (comp. Exo_34:6 Joe_2:13)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain On vv5–7 Ver. 5. For thou, Lord, art good, and ready…
Ver. 5. For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive. Good at giving and forgiving; supplying us with his good, and removing our evil. Here was the great reason why the Psalmist looked to the Lord alone for his joy, because every joy creating attribute is to be found in perfection in Jehovah alone. Some men who would be considered good are so self exultingly indignant at the injuries done them by others, that they cannot forgive; but we may rest assured that the better a being is, the more willing he is to forgive, and the best and highest of all is ever ready to blot out the transgressions of his creatures.
And plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. God does not dispense his mercy from a slender store which perchance may be so impoverished as to give out altogether, but out of a cornucopiae he pours forth the infinite riches of his mercy: his goodness flows forth in abounding streams towards those who pray and in adoring worship make mention of his name. David seems to have stood in the cleft of the rock with Moses, and to have heard the name of the Lord proclaimed even as the great lawgiver did, for in two places in this psalm he almost quotes verbatim the passage in Ex 34:6 "The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth."
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Ver. 5. For thou, Lord, art good, and whither should beggars go but to the door of the good house keeper? Matthew Henry.
Ver. 5. Ready to forgive. The mercy of God is a ready mercy, and his pardons are ready for his people; his pardons and mercies are not to seek, he hath them at hand, he is good and ready to forgive. Whereas most men, though they will forgive, yet they are not ready to forgive, they are hardly brought to it, though they do it at last. But God is "ready to forgive"; he hath, as it were, pardons ready drawn (as a man who would be ready to do a business, he will have such writings as concern the passing of it ready); there is nothing to do but to put in the date and the name; yea indeed, the date and the name are put in from all eternity. Thus the Scripture speaks to show how forward God is to do good; he needs not set his heart to it; his heart is ever in the exactest fitness. Joseph Caryl.
Ver. 5. Plenteous in mercy. It is a thing marvellously satisfactory and pleasing to the heart of a man to be still taking from a great heap; and upon this ground are those proverbial sayings, There is no fishing like to a fishing in the sea; no service like the service of a king: because in one there is the greatest plenty and abundance of that kind of pleasure that fishers look after; and for them that serve, and must live by their service, there is none like that of princes, because they have abundance of reward and opportunity whereby to recompense the services of those that do wait and attend upon them...
And upon the same ground is it that the Scriptures, in several places, do not only assert and testify that God is merciful and gracious, but abundant in mercy and full of grace; and not simply that there is redemption in him, but plenteousness of redemption: Ps 103:8 130:7 Isa 55:7; "Let the wicked forsake his way", etc.; "Let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy; and unto our God, for lie will abundantly pardon." The commodity which we stand in need of is mercy and the pardon of our sins, in case we have been unholy and ungodly creatures; this commodity is abundantly in God. There it is treasured up as waters are in the store house of the sea; there is no end of the treasures of his grace, mercy, pardon, and compassion. There is no man, being in want, but had ten times rather go to a rich man's door to be relieved, than to the door of a poor man, if he knoweth the rich man to be as liberal and bountifully disposed as the poor man can be. John Goodwin.
Ver. 5. Encouraging thoughts of God.
1. He has goodness in his essence.
2. He has forgiveness in readiness.
3. He has mercy in action, flowing forth from him plenteously.
4. His very discrimination is gracious"all them that call upon him."
Psalms 86:6*
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On vv6–7 Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer.
Psa_86:6-7
Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer.
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Concerning prayer
In such a prayer-psalm as this, there is no studying of language: it is the pouring out of the heart as the heart boils over, the utterance of the desires as they bubble up from the souls deeps, with an entire carelessness as to the fashion of the expression. This ought to be a hint to you when you pray. Do not study how to arrange your words when you come before the Lord. When your heart is like a boiling geyser, let it steam aloft in pillars of prayer. The overflowing of the soul is the best praying in the world.
I. David in his prayer sought, beyond all things, to have personal intercourse with God. To my mind that is just the distinction between prayer before conversion and prayer after it. Note well that David, while he thus sought to have dealings with God, to come to close grips with the Lord in the act of prayer, was not presumptuously bold. He perceives the condescension of such fellowship on Gods part. This may be seen in the first line: Bow down Thine ear, O Lord, hear me. As if he said, Thou art so high that, unless Thou shalt stoop very low, Thou canst not commune with me. But, Lord, do thus stoop. Bow down Thine ear. From Thy lofty throne, higher than an angels wing can reach, stoop Thou down and listen to me--poor, feeble me. As you further read in this psalm, you will notice that David, in order to obtain this high privilege, pleads his need of it. He cries, I am poor and needy; as much as to say, Lord, do come to me, do let me have personal intercourse witch Thee, for nothing else will serve my turn. I am so poor that Thou alone canst enrich me; I am so feeble that Thou alone canst sustain me. Thou hast made me: Lord, forsake not the work of Thine own hands; I, Thy child, am full of wants, which Thou only canst supply. Oh, deal with me in great compassion! He next pleads his personal consecration: Preserve my soul, for I am holy--consecrated and dedicated to the Divine service. Moreover, David, anxious to use every argument, pleads his trust: Save Thy servant that trusteth in Thee. This is s conquering plea: Lord, my sole reliance is on Thee; come to me, then, and justify the confidence which Thou Thyself hast inspired. Then, notice that David pleads for Gods presence because He is Gods servant. Save Thy servant. He urges yet another reason why just now he should see God, namely, that he is always in prayer: I cry unto Thee daily. Blessed are we when prayer surrounds us like an atmosphere. Then we are living in the presence of God; we are continually conversing with Him. May we climb to the top of the mount of communion, and may we never come down from it! David also tells the Lord that, when he could not attain to the nearness he desired, yet he struggled after it, and strained after it. Now, when a mans daily cries and inward strivings are after God, he may certainly expect that God in prayer will have intercourse with him. There are occasions with all His people when the Lord brings them very near, and speaks with them, and they with Him, when His presence is to them as real as the all-pervading air, and they are as much rejoiced in it as in the presence of father, or wife, or child, or friend. Still David, conscious of the great privilege which he sought, was not content without pleading the master argument of all: he pleads the great goodness of the Lord. For Thou, Lord, art good. As much as to say, If Thou wert not good Thou wouldst never listen to me. I am, as it were, a noxious insect which a man might far sooner crush than speak with; and yet Thou art so good, my God, that instead of setting Thy foot on me, Thou dost lift me up and talk with me.
II. David desired personal answers from God. We hear our fellow-Christians say, when we tell them of instances in which God has heard our prayers, How very extraordinary! And we look at them, and say, Extraordinary? Has it become an extraordinary thing for God to be true to His own promise? I like better the remark of the good old lady, who, when her prayer was answered, was asked, Does it not surprise you? She said, No, it does not surprise me; it is just like Him. A promise is like a cheque. If I have a cheque, what do I do with it? Suppose I carried it about in my pocket, and said, I do not see the use of this bit of paper, I cannot buy anything with it, a person would say, Have you been to the bank with it? No, I did not think of that. But it is payable to your order. Have you written your name on the back of it? No, I have not done that. And yet you are blaming the person who gave you the cheque! The whole blame lies with yourself. Put your name at the back of the cheque, go with it to the bank, and you will get what is promised to you. A prayer should be the presentation of Gods promise endorsed by your personal faith. We expect our God to answer our prayer all the more surely when we are in trouble. David so expected: In the day of my trouble I will call upon Thee: for Thou wilt answer me. Trouble is sent to make us pray. When we pray, the prayer becomes the solace of our trouble; and when the prayer is heard, it becomes the salvation out of our trouble. Many of you would be out of trouble quickly if you prayed. Sir, I have been doing my best. And what is your best? A better thing than your best is to wait upon the Lord. Now, if we expect God to answer us, we do so on very good grounds. There are certain natural reasons. I was turning over in my mind the question, Why do I pray? Why have I any reason to believe that God hears me? And I thought to myself, Well, on natural grounds I have a right to believe that God will hear prayer, or otherwise why is prayer commanded? The Scripture is full of prayer. It is an institution of the old covenant, as well as of the new, and yet it is a piece of folly if God does not hear it. Observe, again, that prayer has been universal among all the saints. There have been saints of different moulds and temperaments, but they have all prayed. Some of them have been, like Heman and Asaph, masters of song, and they have prayed; others could not sing, but they have all prayed. But, if you turn to scriptural reasons, why was there a mercy-seat if there is nothing in prayer? Why does the throne of grace still remain as a permanent institution, of which Paul says, Let us come boldly to the throne of grace, unless there is a reality in it? Tell me, why is Christ the way to the mercy-seat? Why is He Himself the great Intercessor and Mediator, if there is nothing in prayer?. The Holy Ghost helpeth our infirmities in prayer; surely there must be something effectual where He lends His aid. What! is He, after all, helping us to do a thing which produces no result? For, once more, we know that God hears prayer, because we have met with multitudes of His people who can tell of answers to prayer. (C. H. Spurgeon.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v5 In the day of my trouble
In the day of my trouble
"During my times of difficulty"
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I call on you
"I pray to you"
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forgive
mercy
Yahweh
pray
day
trouble
call
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v5 86:5-7 The psalmist appeals to God to remain true…
86:5-7 The psalmist appeals to God to remain true to his character, which is the basis for hope.
86:5 The psalmist recounts the catalog of divine perfections (Exod 34:6-7), especially God’s willingness to forgive sin (see Pss 32:5; 85:2; 145:7-10).
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